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Chapter 9 - Sexual Orientation and Sexuality

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9.1 Locate current understandings of sexuality and sexual orientation within social, cultural, and historical contexts.9.2 Describe the multiple dimensions of sexual orientation, and analyze different models of sexual identity development.9.3 Evaluate biological, evolutionary, and integrative theories of sexual orientation.9.4 Explain sex differences in sexuality, including attitudes and behaviors, orgasms and sexual satisfaction, and sexual fluidity. 9.5 Understand issues in sexuality across the life course, such as sexual peaks and the medicalization of sexual changes.
What is sexual orientation?
a complex, enduring pattern of cognitive, motivational and behavioral tendencies that shapes how people express their sexuality. often framed more simply as the sex or sexes toward whom an individual feels attracted
What is sexuality?
The capacity for sexual responses and experiences.
What is a pederastic relationship?
men offered education, socialization, and protection in exchange for sexual favors from their younger partners.
Why did people's thinking about sexual orientation change?
Some scholars argue that 19th-century Western medical and scientific fields developed the idea of sexual orientation as a means of controlling people's erotic behavior